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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) -- strange bedfellows or enemies? The iPod and the Zune, the Mac OS and Windows. Is Microsoft really helping Apple selling Macs?

Well, not entirely. According to The Wall Street Journal, the ability of the new Intel Corp.- (NASDAQ:INTC) powered Macs to run Windows is winning fans [subscription required] with consumers, schools and small businesses. As the paper writes, "support for Windows on Apple hardware looks to be playing a key role in persuading some users to switch to Macs."

Apple really doesn't need the help. In the latest reported quarter, Mac sales rose 40% to $2.4 billion. Sales of portable Macs rose 79% to $1.455 billion.

The knock against the Mac at most companies is that its OS does not play nicely with Windows. No longer. Now, Apple computers run the stuff. Apple's marketing strength, however, remains directed at the consumer, due, in part, to the success of the iPod and the upcoming launch of the iPhone.

Perhaps Apple will actually put some sales effort against enterprise sales of the Mac. That could make things interesting for companies like Hewlett-Packard Co.(NYSE:HPQ).

Douglas A. McIntyre is a partner at 24/7 Wall St.

How Microsoft helps Apple sell Macs originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today, Apple (NAS: AAPL) throws some hype fuel on the fire with the new teaser appearing on their website...

...and the hype machine moves forward. Marketers and business folks take note: This isn't a case of over-promise and under-deliver as is so common in the consumer electronics industry, it's genuine excitement about a company that has a track record of rolling out products that consumers buy and apparently enjoy.

Much could be said of Apple, and the tenure of notoriously low-key CEO, Steve Jobs. Look at the massive success of the iPod, the transition to Intel-based computers, not to mention the original and subsequent iMacs. Oh yeah, and there's that little black mark dotting the headlines as of late, you know, the whole improper options granting thing.

Among all the headlines, two things are certain with the house that Jobs built: Secrecy and hype. Virtually every product launch since the iPod has a massive amount of hype surrounding every event, with Appleheads spreading rumor after rumor, and Photoshopped picture after picture, and with next week's Macworld, this event is no different.

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Apple pours gas on MacWorld's hype flames originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What would happen to the arguably most iconic and hip consumer products company if the charismatic and intricate design aficionado Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple Computer? With longtime nemesis Bill Gates announcing last week that he'll be stepping down from day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, that leaves the door open for Jobs to do the same -- if he's ready. Our friends over at TUAW have noodled on this question, so let's examine from a business standpoint and weave in the philosophy of Jobs.

Both in their 50s, Jobs and Gates have one of the most unique and fiercely competitive rivalries in business history. While Gates chose to license his company's flagship computer operating system over 20 years ago, Jobs has been incredibly determined to keep control over the Apple universe for as long as he's been leading the company which he co-founded. Both approaches, by any measure, have been successful, although Microsoft gets more attention. Or is that Apple?

Over the last five years or so, both companies have been in the spotlight many times, with Apple creeping past Microsoft with the company-making iPod line of digital everything players. Sure, we could talk about the computer lines, but what's in the mind of most consumers right now is the iPod, which defines Apple to the market at large. The MacIntosh operating system is a superior product, but that plays second fiddle to the iPod's success at the moment.

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Steve Jobs: when will you follow Bill Gates' lead? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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